Born on Christmas Eve, 1786, MacGregor came from, well, the MacGregors, a Jacobite Clan that had only just been relegalized after 100 years as outlaws.
But actually, one of the things in Southeast England is that everybody was absolutely terrified that while the Jacobite rebellion was going on and the army was fighting that, The French would invade, use this opportunity to invade.
On the second day of the 1715 Jacobite Rising, after leaving Rothbury the Jacobites moved on to Warkworth where in the marketplace they proclaimed James III as king.
Slipping from valley to valley, hiding behind clever disguises and in sympathetic farmhouses, Charlie kept the Scottish dreams of his Jacobite followers alive.
And I think one of the things that Shortly after that, the thing that would unravel them was really the Jacobite rebellion, and that turned things around for them, or turned things sour for them in a lot of ways.
The soldiers also knew that the government forces were determined to seek revenge for the humiliating defeat at Prestonpans, and to crush the Jacobite cause for good.
Due to its advantageous location and formidable defenses, Dunnottar has been a significant place in Scottish history, up until the Jacobite uprisings in the 18th century.
Thirdly, Jacobite clubs, so groups of people who supported the restoration of the Stuarts, would meet in secret and toast what they called the king over the water.
And that's where they passed that law after the Jacobite rebellion, where people were sort of forced to turn themselves in, right, and could be tried just for not turning themselves in.
The prolific Scottish novelist Sir Walter Scott featured the Jacobite rebellion and Bonnie Prince Charlie himself in a highly romanticised version in his novels.
They moved through the country, going through areas where support for the Jacobite cause was strongest, eventually reaching the English town of Derby, which is only about 200 kilometres north of London.